Comparing and Contrasting Edutech and Accenture

Today I'm going to compare and contrast the services offered by Edutech International and Accenture Technology Consulting, two Information Technology consulting services. Along with showing you their similarities and differences, I will discuss what they have to offer in comparison to what Susan R. Miller, Independent Consultant for the Medical Group Management Association Health Care Consulting Group, calls the Six Key Factors of Information System Selection; Functionality, Flexibility, Support Availability, Integration Capability, Scalability, and Cost. (Miller, 2004)

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Today I'm going to compare and contrast the services offered by Edutech International and Accenture Technology Consulting, two Information Technology consulting services. Along with showing you their similarities and differences, I will discuss what they have to offer in comparison to what Susan R. Miller, Independent Consultant for the Medical Group Management Association Health Care Consulting Group, calls the Six Key Factors of Information System Selection; Functionality, Flexibility, Support Availability, Integration Capability, Scalability, and Cost. (Miller, 2004)

In researching these two companies, I went in to the process with one big assumption ... they would both say that they offer the world. Well, I found this to be surprisingly to the contrary. Although what these companies put out on their respective websites may say something completely different from what they may actually offer ... it looked to me as if they focus on two completely different means to obtain their goals. That is, they take two completely different routes on getting you in the proverbial door. But tactics aside, the point of this paper is to tell what they do and don't offer, and unfortunately for these companies, you can only answer those questions by what you read about them ... or by what they say if you call (the point of most company's vague websites), and I have enough companies calling me now due to this class, that I know better than to call them for more information.

First I'll go into the companies' similarities. ...

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